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The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 by Ian Kershaw |
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6 | 37.50% |
The Great Siege: Malta 1565 by Ernle Bradford |
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6 | 37.50% |
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson |
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3 | 18.75% |
Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I by Emily Mayhew |
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4 | 25.00% |
The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty . . . by Denise Kiernan |
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4 | 25.00% |
The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder |
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4 | 25.00% |
A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland |
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3 | 18.75% |
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November 2017 Book Club Vote
![]() Help us choose a book as the November 2017 eBook for the MobileRead Book Club. The poll will be open for 5 days. There will be no runoff vote unless the voting results a tie, in which case there will be a 3 day run-off poll. This is a visible poll: others can see how you voted. It is ![]() We will start the discussion thread for this book immediately after a winner is chosen. You may join the discussion at any time. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 by Ian Kershaw Goodreads | Amazon US / Kobo Print Length: 596 pages Spoiler:
• The Great Siege: Malta 1565 by Ernle Bradford Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Kobo US Print Length: 262 pages Spoiler:
• One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Goodreads Print Length: 528 pages Spoiler:
• Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I by Emily Mayhew Goodreads Kindle Kobo Print Length: 285 pages Spoiler:
• The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home by Denise Kiernan Goodreads | Overdrive Print Length: 384 pages Spoiler:
• The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder Goodreads | Amazon US Print Length: 297 pages Spoiler:
• A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland Goodreads | Amazon US / Audible / Overdrive Print Length: 338 pages Spoiler:
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Not yet sure which ones I will vote for, but there are four I would certainly read if they get the nod. A good and varied selection.
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Tom, I put purchase links in my nomination of Wounded; would you mind adding the links to the poll?
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...1&postcount=45 |
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People, don't forget that Kobo currently has a -90% off coupon!
EDIT: And the Kobo US link to The Last Castle https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-last-castle-2 |
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couldn't get the 90% coupon to work (not a surprise, given how Kobo has been lately), but did get a 50% coupon to work for Malta.
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Come on, folks, this is not looking promising. I'm seeing two books doing well that I know I won't read (and I strongly suspect others won't, regardless of the voting.) One is $12, over the price that many people will willingly pay, and another is 600 pages long. How about a bit of love for Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine, please. This is an excellent book, very reasonably priced, short enough for a monthly read, and it's an [i]good[/g] read. I know I devoured it when I first read it, and I'm actually looking forward to a chance to re-read it.
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For those who are voting for these 3 books, will you get them from Overdrive in time, will you read in time if you already have? Will you buy if you cannot get from Overdrive? Are you voting just for the sake of voting? This is a serious issue if people are voting for the sake of voting. If you have voted, please respond to why you voted the way you did. I voted for what I will read should one of my votes is the winner. |
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I assume this refers to The End. Realistically, a lot of those 596 pages are end matter - notes, sources, index. Amazon doesn't have "Look Inside" for this title so I can't check, but someone I follow on Goodreads cites 400 pages, which seems likely. So that's a third fewer pages right there!
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I'm not willing to read about war, with the exception of the Malta book. That's a bit of history I don't know, and might find interesting. I'm not willing to read The End under any circumstances, and even if 1/3 of the pages are end matter, that's still 400 pages too much. And while The Castle might be interesting, it's $12, and I haven't, so far, seen sufficient justification to spend that much, especially with alternatives available.
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I don't like the tone here.
"People that don't vote like me, are wrong" never does well And what is wrong with a 600 page book? |
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